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Friday, November 18, 2016
Ignore the Mob. Long Live the Electoral College.
This week, anti-Trump protesters hit the streets in big cities around the country, chanting “This is what democracy looks like!” Yes. That’s the problem.
Clinton’s Dishonesty Costs Her the Midwest — and the Election
Hillary Clinton lost the election in the Midwest. Donald Trump won 50 Midwestern electoral votes that went to Barack Obama in 2012 — Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio — plus 20 more in Pennsylvania, where the two-thirds of voters beyond metro Philadelphia are Midwestern in culture and concerns. Trump could have lost Florida and still won.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
What Is Gold Saying About Trump?
Amidst the larger drama of the election last Tuesday, the financial markets staged their own little drama. When the Dow futures plummeted by hundreds of points as it began to look as though Donald Trump would achieve a surprise victory, some people hastily jumped to the conclusion that financial markets feared a Trump presidency. Not so.
Breaking Through the Real Glass Ceiling
Hillary’s campaign ran on the line of “breaking through the glass ceiling,” an outdated feminist archetype for disenfranchised women who are unable to break through society’s paternalistic ceiling of power to achieve key roles in business, economics and, in this case, politics.
The Head of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division Is Violating Federal Law and Her Actions May Be Void
Vanita Gupta, the acting head of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, apparently has been working in violation of federal law for more than a year and a half.
Oregon Official Who Bullied Christian Bakery Loses Election
An Oregon bureaucrat who waged political jihad against the owners of a Christian bakery was given the heave-ho by voters.
The Price Is Riot
No wonder there are so many anti-Trump protests. Apparently, there’s good money to be made in joining them! Barely a week after his election, Donald Trump is already creating jobs.
More Media Myths
You may remember The New York Times. By that I mean the paper that used to decide what news was in America. “The paper of record” as it was often called, not the left-wing propaganda sheet it is today.
Just Because ‘Our Guy’ Won
Just because “our guy” won, Economics 101 hasn’t been repealed. Donald Trump is still a populist, not a fiscal conservative or a states’ rights federalist.
Yes, Trump Will Double Growth and Jobs
When Donald Trump said last week that he will double the American growth rate, his skeptics scoffed. The left doesn’t think 4 percent growth is possible, because they never came close to that target under Barack Obama. But there’s no law of nature or economics that says America is doomed to anemic growth rates. We believe that with the right policy fixes, fast growth is not just possible; it’s probable.
A Quiet Afternoon With the BBC
On Friday, the BBC enlisted me to defend my support of Donald Trump for president. Though the ensuing television interview was conducted in English, I found it incomprehensible. I was speaking in my native tongue to two apparently intelligent English-speaking women, yet their responses to my clear, if amused, rejoinders amounted to gibberish.
Will New Bosses Be the Same as the Old Bosses?
For only the second time since the early 1950s, a Republican president will wield power with Republicans in control of both houses of Congress. With that incredible power, small-government advocates can’t help but hope that this change will bring about good policies and much less government than under President Barack Obama. Maybe.
We Won, You Lost, Deal With It
Three years ago when Republicans were battling President Obama over the debt ceiling and a government shutdown, the president said, “You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election.”
Trump’s Bizarre Winning Formula
The Democratic Party handed Donald Trump a rare opportunity to make radical changes to the electoral map that could last for years to come. First, the Democrats gave Trump a great gift by completing the ongoing radicalization of their party under President Obama. After 2008, it was no longer a party of the working and middle classes, but a lopsided political pyramid.
Draw the Curtain on the Democrats’ Theater of Pointless Gestures
Seventeen days before President Donald Trump, his spoken oath of office still lingering in the wintry air, lifts his left hand from Scripture (a leather-bound edition of “The Art of the Deal”), the Republican-controlled Congress will begin working. Fittingly, on Jan. 3 the First Branch of government will go first, flexing its somewhat atrophied Article I muscles.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Protecting a Billionaire President: ISIS and the Trump Empire
On November 8, 2016, America entered a new era. The Trump era. And while there are many “firsts” with the election of President Donald J. Trump, there is one in particular that poses a significant challenge for our nation.
Radio Station Dumps Atheists for Christmas Music
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a motley crew of atheists, agnostics and free-thinkers, just got a lump of coal in its Christmas stockings.
Trump Has Effective Plan to Curb Illegal Immigration, Secure Border
To stem the tidal wave of illegal immigration engulfing America, the most important first step that Donald Trump can take is to order the Department of Homeland Security to enforce our existing immigration laws.
Blacks and Politicians
Donald Trump’s surprise win has millions of Americans, many of whom are black, in a tizzy. Many, such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, are writing about what it means to be black during a Trump administration even though Trump’s presidency has yet to begin. My argument has always been that the political arena is largely irrelevant to the interests of ordinary black people.
